A Comfortable Home (something spoken of in the Constitution)

A Comfortable Home (something spoken of in the Constitution) / Regina Coyula
Posted on February 16, 2014

The journalist José Alejandro Rodríguez on his show on the Havana
Channel yesterday referenced several complaints about the quality of
newly built or repaired housing, which soon begin to show signs of
deterioration. Last week on the show Cuba Says, on the TV news, there
was an amazing report on the housing offered to people who remain in
shelters, some of the for 40 (!!) years.

And what did I see? A rough and crude property, without plaster, exposed
pipes. no slabs on the floor in the kitchen and bath. Some of the
"beneficiaries" might even say they were happy, and it's understandable
for anyone who has to live with strangers: no privacy, no space, no
sanitation, and no respect for others.

When it's about supplies, Daddy-State didn't exert too much effort to
resolve the problem of housing, which has become critical, especially in
the capital, where the number of people living in shelters, in the last
year, reached number similar to the population of Matanzas.

And not only has the State not resolved the problem of housing, but it
weaned its babies transferring the problem to them. Those affected
should now solicit loans, become hounds on the trail of construction
materials, learn the trade, establish working relationships with people
with similar interests, as it should always be, I think; only that those
who today live badly should do it for themselves.

They were educated in the idea that good labor, political and social
behavior would result in their being awarded housing through having
earned credits at their workplace.

The dozen slums inherited from the government before 1959 were quickly
eradicated. The same government that took them over is entirely
responsible since then for the current number of 160 neighborhoods and
settlements lacking facilities. Creating these favelas has nothing to do
with the blockade or the imperialist threat; it's one more demonstration
of the inefficiency in administration and production from the same group
that insists on convincing us that they can do it now.

14 February 2014

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